Sunday, December 9, 2012

Sometimes I really wish that instead of living in a rickety flat with 3 drunk boys (who shed pizza boxes and beer cans like old skin cells), wearing cigarette-burned clothes that old men probably died in and living on crisps, I could be a proper snazzy blogger fashion girl who can walk in heels and pull off sequins and wears hats on the reg. Maybe then I'd have a better chance of being invited to stuff like Chanel's absolutely batshit mental Métiers d'Art 2013 show, WHICH I CANNOT GET OVER AND NOR DO I WANT TO. Set in a misty ruined Scottish castle. Featuring sporrans and feathers ago-go and that actually-kind-of-horrible Coco suit weave that seems to be reserved exclusively for terrifying rich old bitches and my girl Patsy, ramped up to 11 and Lady Macbethed to shit. ALL THE GOOD STUFF, ALL THE TIME.

all from telegraph.co.uk & pursuitist.com

You kind of have to respect a man who finds it necessary to create a Tudor-inspired couture bridal gown in 2012. I feel like Karl Lagerfeld is the Marie Antoinette of our time.

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Yesterday I took some time off from my busy schedule of napping, eating and pretending to read in order to pop to my second-favourite Aberdeen charity shop. It's amazing, they have a 50% sale ALL THE TIME, like DFS but with old curtains and Hawaiian shirts. Anyway, I got a cashmere-wool-and-tartan-and-fur coat for £7.50 (which my buddy Diana has named 'Swagrid', cheerz gurl), and vintage Jaeger jacket for £4. (And a plastic leopard print bag and a Beryl The Peril badge, because I'm a Gen-Y woman-child.)

I also received a late birthday present from the boy, in the form of THESE BAD BOYS;

So despite being a bit of a no-good slob I'm pretty much set for life at this point.

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

I have spent today drinking all of the tea in the world, watching Léon: The Professional, thinking about how much I want Mathilda's threadz, and thinking about doing all the things I need to do but not doing the things I am thinking about doing that I need to do.What about you?

Monday, October 29, 2012

So the other week I was lucky enough to interview Sasha and Toto from Splashh, who played an excellent show at The Tunnels with Swim Deep and Spector. They also happen to make the kind of dreamy summery tunes that distract fairly well from this wash-out misery weather. Here it is!

Firstly, how did you meet? You live in London, right?

Toto: yeah, but I’m Australian originally, and Sasha’s from New
Zealand. We met in London two years ago and then ended up hanging out back home
in Australia for Christmas, had a crazy party at mine on New Year’s and he
started talking about coming back to London. In February he did, and we started
writing songs!

When did the other
guys join?

Sasha: we booked a show for March, and still didn’t have a
band together the week beforehand! Beale [bass] was around anyway and we flew Jacob
[drums] over from home – he had to quit his job and his other band, and then 2
days later he was playing with us at our first show. It’s been a bit of a wild
ride to be honest.

Would you say that where
you’re from influences your sound?

T: Yeah I guess so; especially coming off the back of a
summer holiday, we were just in that kind of mindset. Still just vibing out,
thinking about the beach! [laughs] But the writing is getting a little bit
heavier – we’ll have to cut London out and go back to Australia for a couple of
weeks to get the sunny vibes back. I just want to live a constant summer, doing
all the festivals!

So what are you doing
later this year?

S: we’re doing this tour with Swim Deep and Spector, and a
few regional tour dates, then we’re playing our first proper headline show in
London on the 3rd December at the 100 Club. And between all this
stuff we’re writing and recording our album – Our single, Vacation, comes out
on 5th November, and the album should be out early next year
sometime.

Have you met any cool
famous people yet?

S: we met Bobby Gillespie. And also, Marky Ramone. Oh and
Jacob and I met Katy Perry as well, she was at a house party after a show we’d
played. Toto didn’t make it though.

T: I missed out, man.

So do you have any obsessive
fans? That always seems like fun. Signed any cleavage?

T: No, not really! We have quite a young crowd, we had to
sign a skateboard the other day, but that’s as far as it’s gone. Apparently
there was someone waiting for us outside earlier tonight, but I didn’t see
them. No crazy stalkers just yet. Maybe one day there will be Splashhmania, with
all our fans running down the street!

What are your lyrics
mostly preoccupied with?

T: It’s usually about girls!

S: yeah or memories, quite personal stuff. We’re getting
better at the lyrics, trying to not just write a whole album full of songs
about girls! For us it’s all about the overall feeling you get from a song.
People can take whatever they want from the lyrics, but some words just sound
really nice and paint a good mental picture, you know?

What has been your
best gig so far?

T: our first headline show, at Birthdays in Dalston, was crazy.
It just seemed to work; it was the hottest day of the year, and there was a
really good vibe. It was our single launch, Austin over there [from Swim Deep] was
crowd-surfing – it was just really hectic and fun.

S: playing with Primal Scream and Kim Gordon from Sonic Youth
was amazing too, because we love both those bands. In fact I think I’m wearing a
Sonic Youth t-shirt right now! It was a Ray Ban anniversary event at Islington
Assembly Hall, in collaboration with Dazed
& Confused magazine. That was pretty cool. There was loads of champagne,
and we got some free sunglasses! But everywhere we play seems awesome at the
moment, because it’s all new to us.

And what are your
favourite bands at the moment?

T: Swim Deep, man! [cheers from Swim Deep across the room].
Temples are pretty cool, and obviously Tame Impala – their new album is out of
control.

S: at the moment we’ve been listening to The Smashing
Pumpkins, Deerhunter, Pixies, and we love a bit of dance music as well – LCD
Soundsystem have a great new documentary out at the moment that we just watched
called Shut Up And Play The Hits,
which was so good. We also love Joey Bada$$, and the Brian Jonestown Massacre
are rad.

What are your
favourites of your own songs?

T: I like ‘All I Wanna Do’, I think it’s pretty much one of
our top tunes. ‘Lost Your Cool’ is good to play live. And the new ones we’ve
written, we’re really excited about – I keep coming home drunk and listening to
them, which is always fun.

So have you started
getting stuff for free yet? Except Ray Bans, obviously.

S: its slowly starting to happen – but you have to be
careful, otherwise you end up wearing free clothes for the sake of it. If it’s
Levi’s or something I’d wear anyway, that’s cool. But we’d like some luxury
brands to come forward! We wouldn’t mind being sponsored by Comme des Garçons.

So I saw that you’re featured
in the current issue of Vogue as well, how did that come about?

S: yeah, we got the call like a day or two before! We were
called in for 9am and didn’t get shot until 5 or 6pm. So we were just sitting
there rinsing the open bar tab. I suppose it was a good experience; it’s a step
up from Vice magazine isn’t it?

T: yeah, and the photo was good; my mum really likes it!
Definitely one for the parents. It was a feature on ‘Young London’ – it was all
actresses, models, and rich people’s daughters who were still in school. Then
there was us, sitting there eating all their food and drinking all their
alcohol! [laughter] Yeah, i’d love to do it again!

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

I found this great charity shop near my new flat that is only open one day a week but sells AMAZING homeware junk; sometimes, you don't realise how much you needed a pineapple to keep your shit in until you have one.Next stop: decorative kitten plates.

Saturday, October 6, 2012

Went for a gloaming-time stroll with my gorj buddy Timmy yesterday even though we are both currently vile snotty messes and nearly froze to death.

Then we came home and piled under allll the blankets to drink hot mulled wine and eat German biscuits and watch The Girl who Played with Fire, and accidentally cough all over each other's faces. Because what else are you meant to do when it's this cold outside??Hope the rest of you are wrapping up warm!

Monday, October 1, 2012

I've only just discovered Gergely Szatmari, and his superwickedly beautiful & bleak photo series, 'Meadowlands', gives me the mad tingles. I want to move to New Jersey and be a sad Bruce Springsteen song heroine. Or a Soprano.

Thursday, September 27, 2012

BFF, who is currently in Amsterdam on her year abroad and having a great time eating pancakes and cycling round town pissed on gin, sent me the BEST present everrr in the post on Tuesday;

A Jip & Janneke watch! AMAZING. My mum grew up in Holland, and she used to read me these stories when I was little, and I love them in the same creepy weirdo nostalgic way I love the Moomins. i.e. A LOT. Thanks gurrrrl.

Also yesterday I hit up the Topshop sale to buy these bad boys;

The earrings are HUMONGOUS and have gems for eyes. They make me want to dress up as Divine for Halloween and get my John Waters creep on.

(...Has anyone else started thinking about Halloween, or is it just me?)

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Dear LORD the weather in Aberdeen has turned abysmal. I am giving up on cocktails and dancing, I finally admit defeat - it's too cold to do anything but stay in bed and eat oranges and drink Lemsip and feel sorry for oneself. Last night one of my flatmates and I went out on a labyrinthine journey which lasted an hour and a half and ended in confusion, 10,000 grey streets, drinking in the rain, and meeting a dead cat. I may as well be living in a Neil Gaiman short story at this point.

completely unedited view from my window this afternoon, i.e. dramatic representation of what it's like to live underwater

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Just got my snaps back from me and the boy's adventures in the marvellous land of jonge jenever, kroketten and stroopwafel. BFF has just moved there for her year abroad - I now feel it would only be RIGHT that I save up and return as soon as poss. For FRIENDSHIP.